Live auction - brm_457152 - HADRIAN Aureus
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| Estimate : | 15 000 € |
| Price : | 7 500 € |
| Maximum bid : | 7 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 12 December 2017 14:36:44 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Aureus
Date: 121
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : gold
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 7,31 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire présentant un buste exceptionnel avec l’épaule nue bien visible. Remarquable représentation au revers. La monnaie, malgré une usure très superficielle sur les plus hauts reliefs, a conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe !
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAESAR TRAIAN - HADRIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste héroïque, lauré et drapé d’Hadrien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A*01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus” (L’empereur césar Trajan Hadrien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P - COS III// SAEC AVR.
Reverse description : Hadrien drapé, debout à droite, présenté comme le génie de l’âge d’or, dans un décor ovale agrémenté des signes du zodiaque ; il tient un phénix sur un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul tertium// Saeculo Aureo” (Grand pontife, revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la troisième fois, le siècle d’or).
Commentary
Revers exceptionnel et d’une rare beauté, de même coin que notamment l’exemplaire NAC, auction 92, lot 553 qui avait réalisé plus de 20000$ dans un état moindre au droit !.
Historical background
HADRIAN
(08/11/117-07/10/138)
Hadrian was born in 76 in Italica. Pupil of Trajan, he married in 100 Sabine, grand-niece of the emperor, and made a career in the staff of the latter, in particular during the Dacian campaign. In 117, he succeeded Trajan, and traveled for twenty years, visiting the entire empire - the only Emperor to have lent himself to this exercise. In 122, Hadrian went to Spain. Childless, he first chose Aélius to succeed him in 136, but the latter died on January 1, 138. Hadrian then adopted Antonin on February 25 and himself chose Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as Antoninus' heirs. He died on July 10, 138.
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